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There are lots of ways.

If you're looking for specific help in using Finale, then I'd recommend the dedicated Finale forum.

https://www.finaleforum.com

An Apple Support document shows that these fonts are still available for documents that already use them; so existing documents should be fine, but you can't use them in new documents. A quick test of a Finale 2009 file on El Capitan creates a file with text in Times (also Athelas, Courier and Mario...

For the record, the Maestro Wide noteheads are at uniF600 to F604 in Finale Maestro. The crotchet note there is 343 font units**, compared to 318. The minim is 353, compared to 328.

(Divide by 250 to get spaces.)

Apple have released new versions of their "New York" font, with styles of Black, Heavy, Bold, SemiBold, Medium and Regular; each in optical sizes of Extra Large, Large, Medium and Small. It's available to download here, along with their San Francisco font(s). https://developer.apple.com/fo...

That's not great support. Firstly, even if Times is missing, it shouldn't cause a problem with selecting other fonts that are installed. Secondly, recommending some random free font site, is not good practice, as those sites tend to be sketchy and of dubious legal status. The font they've recommende...

I seem the same behaviour, John, so it may be a bug.

Thanks all. "A lot to think about." I'll probably just say mp for everyone, and trust in a choir's natural tendency to get louder.

Interesting. I don't think I've ever seen something like 'più f' following piano, but only following something like forte, so slightly overlooked the completely relative aspect.

It's probably safer to use absolute terms. Thanks.

I presume, following Italian, that 'più piano' is quieter than piano, and thus 'meno piano' is louder; and the same is true for 'molto piano'. I'm looking for a 'warmer mezzopiano than we've just had' instruction. So più mp wouldn't be right, and meno mp seems counter-intuitive and open to rehearsal...

I would favour the slurs starting slightly earlier and finishing later than the tie, making the slur bigger, not making the tie smaller.